Yesterday I attended a webinar titled "The future of usability research" wherein a couple of cheery entrepreneurs showed us their AI tool where a robot can interview users to get feedback on things. What do people think about competitors? A new prototype? Etc... It looked like a nice tool. I'll probably end up reluctantly using it in the coming year since lots of companies don't really want to invest in research at all because doing human research is expensive. Automating it is going to feel ...